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Global Impact

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Center for Adolescent Health Project HOPE, U.S.A.
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Center for American Indian Health Family Spirit Project, U.S.A.
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Center for Water and Health An Assessment of Water Quality in Lima's Peri-urban Neighborhoods, Peru
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Johns Hopkins Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment The Impact of African Dust on Childhood Asthma Morbidity in Barbados
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Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health Academic Partnership with the University of Ghana's School of Public Health
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Institution for Global Tobacco Control Center of Excellence for Education and Training, Brazil
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Center for Communication Programs Healthy Russia 2020, Russia
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Center for Refugee and Disaster Response North Korean Refugee Research, China
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Center for Public Health and Human Rights Mobile Obstetric Maternal Health Workers Project, Burma
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International Center for Advancing Neonatal Health Community Health Worker Newborn Care Program, India
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Rakai Health Sciences Program Uganda
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Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Malaria Insitute at Macha, Zambia
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Applied Mental Health Reasearch Group Qualitative Assessment of Violence-Affected Populations, Indonesia
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Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Small Molecule Protein-Glycan Inhibitors as Malaria Transmission-Blocking Therapeutics, Australia

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Global Project Spotlight

	Peru What’s causing high rates of asthma in Peru: unique environmental exposures or genetic predispositions? Or both? Physician-researcher Robert Gilman and colleagues are conducting an observational study of children in Lima and Tumbes to determine if there are differences in the prevalence and severity of asthma in Peru, and if any underlying risk factors can explain the differences.
	U.S.A. In East Baltimore, just a few blocks from the Bloomberg School, intravenous drug users, men who have sex with men, and women at risk learn about HIV prevention from their peers. Lighthouse Studies at Peer Point, a community-based research center, uses social networks of high-risk groups to train health educators and reduce HIV risk behavior.
	NIGERIA The challenge: reach young people with messages about reproductive health and family planning, in a region where need is great and information scarce. The strategy: Ku Saurara! (Listen up!), a popular radio show that targets young people and features engaging story lines. Launched by the Center for Communication Programs, Ku Saurara! is available in five states in northern Nigeria and has produced 182 episodes in its first nine years.
	BANGLADESH Simplicity is power. Researcher Abdullah Baqui worked with Projahnmo, a partnership that trained community health workers in rural areas with high neonatal mortality rates. With only six weeks of training, the community members delivered home-based care that identified and managed newborns with infections using a simple diagnostic approach and reduced neonatal mortality by 34 percent.
	CHINA Can tea made from broccoli sprouts help the people of Jiangsu Province lessen the impact of environmental toxins? Toxicologists John Groopman and Thomas Kensler think it can. They are conducting clinical trials with simple foods to find chemopreventive substances that can reduce DNA damage resulting from unavoidable exposure to aflatoxin, a carcinogen produced by mold that is ubiquitous in peanut and corn crops in the province.